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    It is not the case that A performance that departs from the prescribed notes may still count as a rendering of the original work by virtue of symbolic reference to and exemplification of that work, even while being ontologically an instance of a distinct work.

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    • 1.Goodman's own theory treats notational compliance as the constitutive criterion of work-identity, making symbolic reference categorically insufficient for work-membership.
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    • 2.Allowing symbolic reference to substitute for compliance collapses Goodman's strict type-token distinction, which was designed precisely to exclude such intensional relations from ontological criteria.
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    • 3.A theory that permits ontological distinctness and symbolic relatedness to do the work of identity conflates the metaphysical question of what a work is with the aesthetic question of what a performance is about.
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    • 1.Exemplification, as Goodman defines it, requires that the exemplifying sample actually possesses the property it refers back to, so a performance cannot exemplify a score-defined work it fails to instantiate.
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    • 2.Davies and Levinson's practice-based accounts establish that performer deviation is judged against community-constituted performance norms, not rescued by symbolic reference, making the symbolic-relation move explanatorily idle.
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    • 1.Goodman's theory allows symbolic relations—including reference and exemplification—between works.
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    • 2.A performance can refer to and exemplify a work as individuated by its score without itself being an instance of that work.
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    • 3.Ontological distinctness and symbolic relatedness are independent properties.
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